@lordcudjoe So literally, without foreign supervision over our economic transformation, we can't sustain economic progress? The IMF was never established to solve Africa's economic problems. It is an extension of neo-colonial control. We can't continue with this circle after 69 years
@Prosper_selorm Bawku is not the "north" as a whole,it is a town located within the Upper East Region. The north consists of five regions. Just as you wouldn’t refer to an incident in Nsawam as representative of the entire south, it is not right to generalize insecurity based on a single town.
@lordcudjoe We can't ignore oral when we are currently in need of funds for infrastructure development, paying energy sector debt, and investing in agriculture when it is alleged that some $21 billion dollars was misappropriated or stolen
@lordcudjoe Introducing free primary healthcare while ignoring galamsey is ironic. When our food, water, and soil are contaminated, we fall ill and then rely on free primary healthcare.
The scale of Rwanda's turnaround is legitimately astonishing on the metrics that matter to daily life. Kigali is now widely-acknowledged as one of the cleanest and greenest cities in the world.
Believing in democracy doesn't require pretending that voters in every society weigh "competitive theater" the same way. In a place that experienced total societal breakdown, stability and competence can rationally become the dominant electoral signal, especially when the alternative feels riskier.
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History isn't just in books; it’s on stage. Witness the "Golden Edition" of The Slaves: Revisited at the National Theatre on April 25th. Get your tickets at https://t.co/9QjF89R1x3. 🎟️
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Over the past few weeks, many Africans got to hear about the Strait of Hormuz for the first time ever. What caused this huge information gap?
A story about how Africans are educated into complete ignorance about their own reality by @joyfwen
@ArhinAkwasi@Adu_parkoh1@barkervogues You seem to be mixing issues. We are not forfeiting the World Cup. Ghanaians within the USA alone can give us enough support. The Ghanaian diaspora community is also big. The Black Stars are not going to bring anything meaningful home so such investment is not worth it.
@JustNanaAma Existing literature by African academics already affirms that. However, acknowledging the complicity of some selected few does not justify the institutionalisation, cruelty, abuse and current unjust world order by the slave masters who even received compensation after the aboliti
Why complain about the media when you can use the medium to inform.
See my article on Ghana’s Resolution pending before the UN General Assembly, and the depth of our silence.
“I challenge you. Watch what happens whenever slavery and reparations come up in our public discourse, even among educated Ghanaians, even among people who should know better.
Within minutes, someone will say: “But Africans sold Africans.”
It lands like a checkmate, and the conversation collapses into a binary: either you acknowledge African complicity and therefore the whole reparations argument falls apart, or you are seen as naive, romantic, an apologist for victimhood politics. There is no third space. No sophistication. No ability to hold two truths at the same time. But if the historians can, then the legal scholars must. And surely our society must be taught to. Any serious student of this period can tell you that African complicity in the slave trade is real, documented, and must be reckoned with honestly.
And that none of it neutralises the case for reparations, because the reparations argument rests on the scale, the industrial character, the racialised permanence, and the multigenerational economic architecture of transatlantic slavery, not on a simple moral ledger that none of it neutralises the case for reparations, because the reparations argument rests on the scale, the industrial character, the racialised permanence, and the multigenerational economic architecture of transatlantic slavery, not on a simple moral ledger of who did what to whom. These are not competing facts. They live in the same sentence.
The reason we cannot hold that complexity is that we were never given the tools to do so. Our educational system did not teach us to. It still does not.”
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@kobbyschram@barkervogues It is important to recognize that the former slave owners have been trying to erase history and flip the narrative. Reparations are not only about money nor acknowledgement, but an effort to change the current unfair financial order and UN composition.
@KojoKeelson@barkervogues Reparations are not only about payments or money. It is part of a larger plan towards the restructure of the current world order that works against Africa.
A second cycle school, Dabokpa Technical Inst. in the Northern Region is doing something amazing. Building tractors, tricycles, incubators, etc. I believe they require some serious collaboration with industry. Let's encourage them. Repost this till they get the needed attention.